Oxford Quantum Circuits enters Equinix

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) will offer Quantum Computing as a Service (QCaaS) via Equinix's TY11 Tokyo International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.OQC is installing its quantum hardware in TY11 and plans to leverage Equinix's on-demand interconnection solution, Equinix Fabric, to make its Quantum Computing as a Service available to businesses and organizations around the world on Equinix's global platform in late 2023.Once connected to Equinix...

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Ireland’s eir evo selects HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud

eir evo, the largest managed cloud services provider in Ireland, has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to enhance the cloud services offering for its private cloud platform, Digital Planet. Eir evo has operations and data centers located in Dublin as well as the UK and US and is one of two HPE Platinum Partners in Ireland. eir evo's Digital Planet platform offers secure and compliant enterprise-class cloud hosting and IT managed...

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Truespeed deploys Adtran XGS-PON across southeast England

Truespeed is deploying Adtran’s XGS-PON technology to provide high-speed connectivity to more customers across the South West of England. The new network  enables the service provider to deliver current speed tiers of up to 900 Mbps to households and up to 10 Gbps to its enterprise customers. '“We’ve already passed over 60,000 properties with our full-fiber network, and we aim to increase that to half a million by 2025. Thanks to Adtran’s...

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Canadian research network picks Nokia 7750 Service Router

CANARIE, the high-speed backbone of Canada’s National Research and Education Network (NREN), will deploy the Nokia 7750 Service Router as the IP/MPLS platform to support its more than 34,000 km network connecting 13 provincial and territorial networks to each other and to more than 100 NRENs around the world.The 7750 SR platform offers 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps services over an IP/MPLS network capable of supporting more than 46 Tbps of capacity. Mark...

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UK expresses concern over Broadcom/VMware deal

Broadcom's proposed $61 billion acquisition of VMware could make servers more expensive, potentially driving up the cost of network services, according to the UK Competition and Markets Authority.The CMA’s investigation focused on six products sold by Broadcom (Ethernet NICs, Smart NICs, Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (FC HBAs), storage adapters, FC switches and top-of-rack (TOR) switching chips) and VMware’s server virtualisation software. In...

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Lambda raises $44 million for its Cloud GPU service

Lambda, a privately-held company based in San Francisco, raised $44 million in Series B funding to accelerate the growth of its AI cloud. Lambda offers on-demand access to GPUs including NVIDIA A100, RTX A6000, Quadro RTX 6000, and Tesla V100.The funding round was led by Mercato Partners with participation from Adam D'Angelo, Jeff Hammerbacher, Greg Brockman, Lukas Biewald, and Garry Tan, as well as exisiting investors including 1517, Gradient...

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Video: Accelerating the 5G core with SmartNICs

How does Napatech's SmartNIC technology improve 5G network performance and cost-effectiveness?https://youtu.be/0fqN1_G3UFsCharlie Ashton, Director of Business Development at Napatech, and Kaitki Agarwal, President and CTO of a5g Networks, explain why:Napatech's SmartNICs offload and accelerate specific applications, leading to higher performance in 5G networks.a5g Networks leverages Napatech's solution for traffic offloading, enabling flexibility...

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